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Useful idiot

Often mistakenly attributed to Lenin, Stalin or Marx, the term was first used by US newspapers in 1948 and has little documented usage within the Soviet Union, meaning a third party who spreads propaganda or disinformation, usually unintentionally or without fully understanding the cause they're proselytizing for. Originally used during the cold war to refer to Western communist sympathisers, or those susceptible to communist propaganda, the term could be used today to refer to those spreading anti-vaccine misinformation echoed or amplified by Russian intelligence, or ,or Trump supporters acting on foreign-spread conspiracy theories about pizzas and child molesters. In any case, the person spreading the disinformation uses someone susceptable to the disinformation in order to spread it further
This useful idiot read online that Hilary Clinton is selling kids through this pizza place and now he's going down there to shoot it up.
by Dr MDrr February 22, 2021
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Blue Blood Idiot

People that are famous due nepotism, usually their parents fame.
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Idiot

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Idiot

Someone with a missing and/or partially formed frontal lobe
That guy is an idiot for seeing that brain surgeon
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idiotize

verb
verb:

1. To make into an idiot or render the reasoning masses into an idiotic mob by means of manipulation and disinformation.
2. make (someone) a moron or incapable of thinking for themselves.
Dlamini trying to idiotize the nation by playing the forgiveness card in response to national outrage at #StateCapture by Zumba and the Guptas in South Africa, is pure unadulterated bullshit!
by Psygeekchic December 18, 2017
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Idiot

"Maria thought that the world was a continent? Man they're such an idiot"
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Idiot

What people that think it was a good idea to make the majority on Urban Dictionary sexual are.
Graham: Did you hear about what Ray just did?
Luna: No, what did he do?
Graham: After he just won a tennis match just for fun against his friend, Andrew, he decided to hit the bar and slipped on an ice cube on the floor and got hurt.
Luna: What an idiot! Besides, why did he even hit the bar after the match anyway?
Graham: I have no idea, he should have just went home, where he would've been safer.
Luna: Which he would've done if he wasn't so stupid.
by PhoenixGamer34 July 15, 2021
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